1992 Royal Rumble
Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, New York
Men’s Royal Rumble 1992
Winner
Ric Flair
entered at number 3
- Match time
- 1:02:02
- Entrants
- 30
- Most eliminations
- 6 Sid Justice
- Longest time in match
- 1:00:02 Ric Flair
1992 men match moments
as entrant 3 enters — Record — Ric Flair draws number three
Ric Flair draws number three
Flair went on to last the whole hour and win the vacant WWF Championship from the third draw. In his book To Be The Man he wrote that he was brought in at number three to showcase his endurance to an audience who had not watched his work in Jim Crockett Promotions and WCW.
as entrant 29 enters — Return — Sid Justice returns from injury at 29
Sid Justice returns from injury at 29
Justice entered at number 29 while coming back from a recent injury, and reached the final four.
on Hulk Hogan's elimination — Crowd — The crowd cheers Hogan going out
The crowd cheers Hogan going out
Sid Justice threw Hulk Hogan out from behind, and the live pay-per-view audience cheered it loudly despite the storyline casting Justice as the villain. The reaction was edited out of later television replays, with new commentary recorded condemning Justice.
on Sid Justice's elimination — Notable elimination — Hogan reaches in, and Flair wins
Hogan reaches in, and Flair wins
Still at ringside after his own elimination, Hogan grabbed Justice's arm and held him long enough for Flair to put him out and win the match.
- 1 The British Bulldog
- 2 Ted DiBiase
- 3 Ric Flair
- 4 Jerry Sags
- 5 Haku
- 6 Shawn Michaels
- 7 Tito Santana
- 8 The Barbarian
- 9 The Texas Tornado
- 10 Repo Man
- 11 Greg Valentine
- 12 Nikolai Volkoff
- 13 Big Boss Man
- 14 Hercules
- 15 Roddy Piper
- 16 Jake Roberts
- 17 Jim Duggan
- 18 Irwin R. Schyster
- 19 Jimmy Snuka
- 20 The Undertaker
- 21 Randy Savage
- 22 The Berzerker
- 23 Virgil
- 24 Col. Mustafa
- 25 Rick Martel
- 26 Hulk Hogan
- 27 Skinner
- 28 Sgt. Slaughter
- 29 Sid Justice
- 30 The Warlord
The last five draws are 26 to 30 in this match, and are marked in the chart above. They enter against a field that is already thinning, which is the long-standing argument that a late number is an advantage.
Bar positions are derived, not recorded. No source publishes entry and elimination timestamps; they are solved from entry order, the published times in match and the recorded elimination order. The ring-population curve below reads the same solved times. The times in the table below are as published.
What it led to
Threads that start in this match and pay off later. Editorial rather than computed — each one cites where it comes from.
Hogan costs Justice the Rumble, and it becomes a WrestleMania match
Hogan, already eliminated, grabbed Justice's arm from ringside and held him long enough for Flair to put him out. Justice's outrage played out across WWF television, and he abandoned Hogan during a tag match on Saturday Night's Main Event to complete the turn.
WrestleMania VIII 77 days later
Hulk Hogan beat Sid Justice by disqualification
Source: Wikipedia, retrieved 7 August 2026
Flair leaves with the title and Savage comes for it
Flair won the vacant WWF World Heavyweight Championship in the match itself. The feud that followed was built on Flair's claim of a previous relationship with Savage's wife, Miss Elizabeth.
WrestleMania VIII 77 days later
Randy Savage beat Ric Flair for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship
Source: Wikipedia, retrieved 7 August 2026
Entry and elimination times are derived, not recorded: no source publishes them. They are solved from entry order, published times in match and the recorded elimination order, around a nominal 120-second interval. Times in match are as published.
Sources: wikipedia (primary), darrenswinloss